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The Problem of the Ideal

by David Dubrovsky

CONTENTS

Introduction	7

PART ONE. THE IDEAL AS SUBJECTIVE REALITY	12

Chapter 1. General Characteristics of the Problem of the Ideal	12

1. The Category of the Ideal in the System of Philosophical Knowledge	12
2. The Material and the Ideal. The Initial Definition of the Category of the Ideal	17
3. Natural‑Scientific Aspects of the Problem of the Ideal. Types of Subjective Reality	23
4. Disputes over the Problem of the Ideal in Marxist Literature	33

Chapter 2. The Structure of Subjective Reality	56

1. Subjective Reality as an Integral Multi‑Dimensional Dynamic Bipolar and Self‑Organising Structure. The Unity of the "Self" and "Other" Modalities	56
2. The Unity of the Reflexive and the Nonreflexive, the Actual and the Dispositional in the Structure of Subjective Reality. Attitude of the Self to Its Own Ego	64
3. Analytical Structure Parameters of Subjective Reality	78

Chapter 3. The Psychic, the Logical and the Ideal	88

1. Reflection, the Psychic, Consciousness and the Ideal	88
2. The Psychic, the Logical, the Ideal. Untenability of Radical Antipsychologism	94
3. The Ideal as the Unity of Epistemological and Ontological Aspects	101

PART TWO. THE IDEAL AND THE MIND‑BRAIN PROBLEM. CRITIQUE OF "SCIENTIFIC MATERIALISM" AND SUBSTANTIATION OF AN ALTERNATIVE CONCEPTION	109

Chapter 4. "Scientific Materialism" and the Mind‑Brain Problem: A New Attempt at Discarding the Category of the Ideal	109

1. The Main Features of "Scientific Materialism"	109
2. Varieties of "Scientific Materialism	119
3. Critique of "Scientific Materialism" in Contemporary Western Philosophy	127

Chapter 5. Untenability of Physicalist Approach to the Mind‑Brain Problem	139

1. Physicalist Paradigm and Its Reductionist Programme. Physical Reality and Objective Reality	139
2. Methodological Impasse of the Paradigm of Physicalism	148
3. "Functional Materialism" and Use of General Scientific Notions in the Investigation of the Mind‑Brain Problem. Conception of "Emergentist Materialism"	154

Chapter 6. Informational Approach to the Mind‑Brain Problem as an Alternative to "Scientific Materialism"	166

1. The Ideal and Information	166
2. The Category of the Ideal and the Informational Approach to the Mind‑Brain Problem	173
3. Decoding as a Special Cognitive Task in the Study of Living Nature, the Psyche and Culture	193

PART THREE. THE SOCIO‑CULTURAL ASPECT OF THE PROBLEM OF THE IDEAL	208

Chapter 7. The Category of the Ideal and the Problem of Social Consciousness	208

1. Theoretical Difficulties in Defining Social Consciousness through the Category of the Ideal	208
2. Interrelation Between Individual and Social Conscious�ness. Individual Consciousness as a Source of New Formations in the Sphere of Social Consciousness	213
3. In What Sense Is Social Consciousness Ideal?	229
4. The Ideal an Idea, Idealisation, an Ideal	235

Chapter 8. Social Dialectic of the Ideal and the Material	253

1. Subjective Reality and Speech	253
2. Interrelation of Material and Spiritual Activity. Activity and Communication	264
3. The Ideal as an Expression of Man's Capacity for Action. Objectification‑Deobjectification Processes and the Structure of the Action Capacity	269
4. The Category of the Ideal and the "Personal Aspect" of Social Consciousness and Social Activity	277

Name Index	287

Subject Index	292

SOURCE: Dubrovsky, David. The Problem of the Ideal: The Nature of Mind and Its Relationship to the Brain and Social Medium. Translated by Vladimir Stankevich. Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1988. 293 pp.

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